VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 User's Guide - VERITAS Enterprise Administrator (September 2004)

File System Tasks
Monitoring File System Capacity
Chapter 5170
Monitoring File System Capacity
The Set Usage Threshold procedure enables you to monitor the
capacity of a file system on a mounted volume.
To monitor the capacity of a file system
Step 1. Select the file system to be monitored.
Step 2. Choose Actions > Set Usage Threshold.
Step 3. Complete the Set Usage Threshold dialog box as follows:
NOTE For systems other than vxfs, alert thresholds are not persistent (that is,
the information is lost when the server restarts). This means that:
• File system objects on the bus reflect the threshold and enabled
status for alerts
• Once an alert is fired, the status on the bus is disabled so that the
alert is not refired at every periodic rescan
(This can be avoided by allocating a low value to Threshold Percentage.)
Monitor Capacity Select the Monitor Capacity checkbox to
initiate capacity monitoring on the file system.
The File Systems Tabular View indicates if
capacity monitoring is Enabled or Disabled.
Threshold
Percentage
Select the Threshold Percentage value.
When usage crosses this value, an alert will be
logged.
Alert Interval
(vxfs systems only):
Specifies the minimum time between recording
alerts. (Avoids multiple recordings if events are
moving back and forth over the boundary.)